Bruce W. MacDonald

Bruce MacDonald is senior director of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, a bipartisan body headed by former Defense Secretaries William Perry and James Schlesinger.  He was project leader for the Council on Foreign Relations’ study of China, Space Weapons, and U.S. Security, which the council published last autumn. He also served on the Obama presidential campaign’s defense policy support team in the areas of military space, missile defense, and other strategic issues.

MacDonald was assistant director for national security at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and served on the National Security Council staff.  He was a professional staff member of the House Armed Services Committee and served in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, where he chaired the Interagency Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty (START) Working Group and served on the U.S. START delegation in Geneva.

MacDonald is an honors graduate in aerospace engineering from Princeton University.  He also received two masters degrees from Princeton, one in aerospace engineering with a specialty in rocket propulsion, and the second in public and international affairs.  MacDonald is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.